scared - Story 123043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in her fingers made it difficult to pour the tea. The air in her kitchen felt thick, and the rhythmic thudding from next door was like a drumbeat in her skull. It had started the previous day, a relentless invasion of her peace. She kept looking out the window, watching the workers move about the yard. Their faces were impassive, but she imagined them talking about her, wondering about her. She felt like a trapped animal, always on edge.

Emotion: scared

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.86 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scared. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 scared stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scared emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scared vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.350
`😰`	0.337
`😖`	0.317
`마다`	0.317
`恐惧`	0.311

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.637
`de`	-0.605
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.351
`happy`	-0.314